Tajik boy captures UFO on mobile phone camera

A Tajik teenager quickly became a local hero after he had shown a 50-second footage of a “flying saucer” captured with a built-in camera on his mobile phone.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 00:37 GMT


Brazil police seize anti-aircraft missiles in drug-infested slums

Federal police in Brazil said they have found portable air defense systems among the arsenal of weaponry seized in the slums in northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 01:27 GMT


France resumes search for crashed Airbus black boxes

French authorities will begin next week a third attempt to locate flight data recorders at the site of last year's Airbus A330 passenger plane crash off the coast of Brazil.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 02:28 GMT


Air France crash

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 02:28 GMT


Russia detains 2 foreign trawlers over illegal fishing

The Russian Coast Guard said on Friday it had detained two Cambodian-flagged fishing vessels near the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East on suspicion of poaching fish and crab.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 03:38 GMT


North Korea's nuclear program

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 04:53 GMT


N. Korea vows nuclear response over attempts to destabilize regime

North Korea said on Friday it would retaliate with “unprecedented nuclear strikes” if anyone attempts to provoke instability in the country.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 04:53 GMT


Three police injured in Chechnya blast

Three police officers were injured when an explosive device detonated in Chechnya, a police source told RIA Novosti on Friday.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 05:52 GMT


A rise in militant attacks in Pakistan

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 06:05 GMT


Some 60 Taliban killed in air strike in Pakistan

Pakistani fighter jets have bombed Taliban hideouts in the country's northwestern tribal region, killing nearly 60 militants, Pakistani media said on Friday.

// Mar. 26, 2010 - 06:05 GMT